Today’s topic is about the Indian Point Nuclear Plant,and what should be done about it. The plant which is located 24 miles from New York City on the bank of the Hudson River.  The first hijacked plane flew right past Indian Point 6 minutes before it struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center.  The 9/11 Commission investigation revealed that Mohamed Atta had considered changing the target to Indian Point during his surveillance flights over the Hudson.  In 2007, the Attorney General for the state of New York filed papers challenging the re-licensing of Indian Point.  Westchester County, the county in which Indian Point is located, has also called for Indian Point’s closure. (Note: Monday’s Journal News front-page story, “NRC staff seeks to gag Westchester on Indian Point federal license review!”)

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Our guest is Ms. Michel Lee, who has spent 20 years as a trial attorney prosecuting cases for and against corporations and representing a wide variety of industries (manufacturing, aerospace, finance, property development and insurance).  Her work involved a diverse array of cases including pentagon procurement fraud, RICO, First Amendment, and discrimination litigation.  After obtaining a post-doctoral degree, she specialized in conducting internal investigations for institutions and corporations, which were having severe internal problems such as whistleblower complaints. She is currently Senior Policy Analyst for Promoting Health and Sustainable Energy (PHASE), an energy policy think tank.
 
She also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), www.nirs.org, an international nuclear industry watchdog organization based in the Washington D.C area. Michel is a member of the Steering Committee of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), www.IPSECinfo.org, a coalition of over 70 public interest, public health, civic, environmental and citizen groups which formed in response to a flood of citizen concerns about the safety of the Indian Point nuclear power plants after 9/11.*  Michel chairs the public interest group the Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy (CIECP), which is a member of IPSEC.

Michel was also in the Soviet Union four years following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and frequently lectures on Chernobyl issues. We will also have Ms. Allegra Dengler, a former trustee of the Village of Dobbs Ferry, who has been active in the Town of Greenburgh and Westchester County regarding the debate over Indian Point. Allegra has been on this program in the past and has focused much of her time on the sanctity and the security of the voting booth. You can hear her interviews on the archived broadcasts of The Advocates of September 6, 2007 and January 16, 2008, discussing The Problem of Electronic Voting and Voter Integrity.